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The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is the largest festival of its kind, showcasing films that tell a story about our planet. The festival is on tour to inspire activism in communities like Bloomington, where the featured films will focus on the theme of food. The Indiana Forest Alliance is coordinating the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival in Bloomington on February 25, and IFA director Rhonda Baird joins us in the studio as our guest this week on EcoReport, a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.

Bloomington author Donovan Walling highlights the upcoming lecture by internationally recognized theologian Bishop John Shelby Spong who will discuss his philosophy of “Progressive Christianity” at the Bloomington First United Church on Sunday February 14. Walling also shares some personal history as author of the groundbreaking anthology “Open Lives, Safe Schools”, his role as co-founder of the Quarryland Men’s Chorus and other aspects of his extensive career in education. Northern Indiana activist Linda Bentz provides updates about the united organizing efforts by various community, student and queer groups in response to an offensive cartoon published recently in the University of Notre Dame student newspaper.